Indie Hip-Hop Music Chart

Indie Hip-Hop Chart - Allergic to the mainstream? Check out our top 20 indie songs. Created by combining how many times the song has been played with your ratings, DJBooth's charts help turn today's brand new music into tomorrow's hit records.

Welcome to the Booth’s Top Independent Hip Hop Chart! As always, your feedback has determined which songs made the cut. Each chart’s lineup is calculated using a special DJBooth.net Formula that takes into account member ratings and reviews as well as features’ overall popularity.

Tech N9ne retains the crown with ensemble banger “Worldwide Chopper,” but last week’s runner-up, Grieves’ “Bloody Poetry,” drops off the chart entirely. Replacing it in second is a new addition, Odd Future frontman Tyler the Creator‘s “She.” All in all, 12 of the past week’s features attain chart placement, including Booth-exclusive world premieres from Celeb Forever (“I Don’t Believe You,” in ninth) and The League of Extraordinary Gz (“Yes He Is,” in 16th).

Can we all take a moment and appreciate the fact that one of today's most-buzzed-about artists is a 20-year-old hip-hop Svengali who spits about rape and murder in a satanic growl, while dressed like a kid who just got home...Read More

Emilio Rojas is widely known as an emcee whose sole focus in life is the sun and the shade, parties and women, flashy cars and flashier jewelry, so it’s no surprise that new leak The Letter is an ode to Patron shots and...Read More

Though a talented artist, Seattle up-and-comer Grieves would be the first to admit that he's not a perfect individual. In fact, he has admitted it, repeatedly and in great detail, in his previous Booth features. Single numero...Read More

After an extended hiatus, the DJBooth.net Freestyle Series makes its triumphant return to our pages. Entry #242 comes courtesy of Dee-1, the New Orleans representative who hooked up with DJBooth to drop I Hope They Hear Me...Read More

Reviewing records like this is always a bittersweet experience. While I rave about the sheer dopeness of the song, in the back of my mind I know I have to wait months before I taste more - Young Scolla's Seconds Away album is...Read More

And now for something completely different. While we pause on certain days to remember specific events in history, some can be felt and seen every day through the eyes of our acquaintances, friends and family. This week marks...Read More

To paraphrase Jay-Z, money may not lie, but both women andmen do. Of course, for a dude like Celeb Forever, the untruths that come from the ladies hurt the most – thus, as he inform us on new mixtape single I Don't Believe...Read More

Crazy as it may seem to those of us who know the meaning of the word “downtime,” there are people out there who thrive on being constantly in motion; even if they could be convinced to slow their pace, the boredom would...Read More

An emcee and a beat. That's all. The Brooklyn born and bred Skyzoo, making his first solo feature appearance on our pages since the Speakers on Blast era, straight "fountain pen baptizes" bars on his latest effort, The...Read More

Fresh off the arrival of his Booth-acclaimed Tomorrow, Today LP, longtime Booth favorite K. Sparks(a freestyle series alumnus) returns with a fresh remix of the project's title track. Here, frequent production collaborator...Read More

In a genre built on comparisons, Killer Mike, or Mike Bigga, whichever you may prefer, is the modern day Ice Cube. Yes, while we're aware Cube is still around, I'm referring to Death Certificate-era Cube and not Are We There...Read More

Picture this scene: Beat drops, El Prez begins to rhyme and girls are running to the dance floor spilling their drinks yelling out, "I just wanna dance ... this is my song." In an era of too many shout outs and instrumentals...Read More

What?! You haven't downloaded M.i's new mixtape yet? Though the project dropped way back in early April, listeners who aren't as with-it as your average Boothgoer still have time to jump on the Lone Star State...Read More

They say there’s strength in numbers, and if that’s true than Austin, TX octet The League of Extraordinary Gz are Samson, when he still had his hair. For those not up on their Biblical references, that means crazy f**king...Read More

I have to admit that before I started this write-up I wasn’t particularly familiar with Mac Miller's music. You can now consider me one of an ever-growing group of converts. Signed to Rostrum Records, a label that has...Read More

The title of Omen's forthcoming set, along with politically-charged lead single Negro Spiritual, seem to suggest a project packed from top to bottom with hard-hitting social commentary – but, hey, even Black Heroes have to...Read More

I like weird, far-out sounds as much as the next guy – maybe more, depending on the 'next guy' – but damn, do artists like Robbie Casablanca make my job difficult. Simply put, if there's a neat label that describes what...Read More